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THE BOOK OF<br/>
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CHAPTER 16
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Job bewails against the wicked who oppose him—Though even his friends scorn him, he testifies that his witness is in heaven and his record is on high.
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Then</span> Job answered and said,
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I have heard many such things: miserable <sup>a</sup><a href="job/16/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="Job 13: 4; D&C 121: 10 (7-11).">comforters</a> <i>are</i> ye all.
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Shall vain words have an end?  or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
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I also could speak as ye <i>do:</i> if your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
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<i>But</i> I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage <i>your grief.</i>
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Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and <i>though</i> I forbear, what am I eased?
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But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
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And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, <i>which</i> is a witness <i>against me:</i> and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.
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He teareth <i>me</i> in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
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They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek <sup>a</sup><a href="job/16/10a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Reproach.">reproachfully</a>; they have gathered themselves together against me.
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God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
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I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken <i>me</i> by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.
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His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.
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He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a <sup>a</sup><a href="job/16/14a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB mighty man.">giant</a>.
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I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and <sup>a</sup><a href="job/16/15a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR cast my strength.">defiled</a> my horn in the dust.
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My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids <i>is</i> the shadow of death;
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Not for <i>any</i> injustice in mine hands: also my prayer <i>is</i> pure.
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O earth, cover not thou my blood, and let my cry have no place.
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Also now, behold, my witness <i>is</i> in <sup>a</sup><a href="job/16/19a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Heaven.">heaven</a>, and my record <i>is</i> on high.
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My friends <sup>a</sup><a href="job/16/20a" mark="a" type="A" title="Job 21: 3 (1-3).">scorn</a> me: <i>but</i> mine eye poureth out <i>tears</i> unto God.
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O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man <i>pleadeth</i> for his neighbour!
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When a few years are come, then I shall go the <sup>a</sup><a href="job/16/22a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Death.">way</a> <i>whence</i> I shall not return.
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